Bigotry directed at Floyd Mayweather is cringeworthy

Flashing cash, as usual, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and pals at the Big Boy Mansion in Las Vegas (Photo: Floyd Mayweather Twitter Page)

This minister in Gainesville, this character who is leading a public burning of the Koran on Sept. 11, what kind of a clergyman is he exactly?

I'd say he is a minister of hate and stands for everything that real Christians, real Muslims and real Jews stand against.

But, while this man fans the flames of racial and religious intolerance, he is no better than radical followers of Islam who respond to such insidious and inflammatory provocation with violence directed at American soldiers or just plain citizens.

No less an expert than Gen. David Petraeus has warned that the Florida Koran bonfire will exacerbate the tensions in military hot spots and put our fighting men and women in greater jeopardy than they normally are.

Violent conduct begets violent conduct. That eye for an eye thing only leads to the old saying that, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Which brings me to Floyd Mayweather, who may not have truly been mean-spirited and ignorant but surely came across that way.

His bad!

Some people have gone over the top in reaction to Mayweather's Ustream rants.

Old friend Mark Whicker, Orange County Register columnist who is nationally syndicated, wrote that Mayweather should retire from boxing.

That won't happen and it should not happen. Mayweather's apology was weaker than week old coffee but he did apologize.

Call it strike one and let's see if Mayweather repeats such abhorrent commentary.

Others have yawned and said, hey, man up, this is boxing. Mayweather's comments were just trash talking, one boxer to another.

If that was true, we wouldn't still be discussing his ignorance, would we?

Mike Tyson said he would gobble up Lennox Lewis' children. But this threat of cannibalism was not a big deal since, at that point, Lewis had no children and Tyson was just trying to entice him into a fight.

Tyson did not call Lewis “a slimy Limey,” mock his Jamaican heritage or malign his Canadian background either.

Similarly, when Tyson said he would make Razor Ruddock his “girlfriend,” it was a personal attack uttered in the buildup to a fight. Tyson said it at a press conference and said it directly to Ruddock's face.

I know the difference between boxing trash talk and toxic garbage and so do you.

Bernard Hopkins spitting on and stomping on the Puerto Rican flag also occurred at a press conference and, while inflammatory and insipid, the show of disrespect was done in Felix Trinidad's presence.

Ruddock and Trindiad were able to fire back but Mayweather's Ustream attack was not designed to hype ticket or PPV sales.

Which brings me to the below the sewer line reverse racism and ethnic mudslinging in which the Lunatic Fringe of Pacland (not the site, I mean Pacquiao fans) are using the N word, referring to monkeys and apes and even citing the Ku Klux Klan.

This reaction is even worse than what Mayweather did. Unfortuantely, I cannot spend 12 hours each day deleting such spews from my comments section but I completely disavow it all.

Here now is an email sent to me by a Mayweather fan and a follow up communication between us.

Rodney King asked the proper question.

Can't we all just get along?

THE MAYWEATHER FAN: “All you ever write about is Mayweather. Must be the only way you can get readers lol.

Look since you are so concerned about racist comments, how about you talk to your readers who leave nasty racist comments About black people on this site all the time.

Even before Mayweathers ustream comments there were people on your site saying racist shite.”

Just saying peace.

Here's my initial response:

“U r right racism is foul. I spent hours this am deleting many of the hateful ones I will shortly write about this as I have before I will never condone that crap and I implore examiner to block it all.

As far as being a moron I am a law school grad so u may be right on that.”

Then a response from this female Floyd fan:

“Thanks for your response. The moron thing was a bit much and I am sorry.

All this does is bring the worst out of people and I just wish we could get past it.

Most of the comments I read are very hurtful on this site.

Glad to know that you are aware of this.”

As the Mayweather fan said, peace out.

(mlcmarley@aol.com)


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